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Unintended consequences of passive investing materialise: MFS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
... Association's estimates of 2.4 million indices in existence when there are only 43,000 public companies. "We hire and fire active management at the wrong time. So, we end up incentivising the wrong behaviour to change the benchmark. We pick the top ...

FES Super to no longer supplement returns in default

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2026
The Fire and Emergency Services Superannuation Fund (FES Super) has reworked its default option as it looks to ensure performance test success. FES Super offers six investment options to members, the default being the Smoothed option. As of this month ...

FIIG Securities fined $2.5m for lengthy cyber failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
FIIG Securities will pay $2.5 million over cybersecurity failures that went on for years and saw the private data of clients compromised and, in some cases, leaked. ASIC brought its case against FIIG Securities in March 2025 after it found the firm ...

RBA overlooked government spending in rate hike: Hearing

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) came under fire for overlooking the role government spending, which recently peaked again, has played in driving inflation and interest rate decisions. The grilling came off the back of the Monetary Policy Board upping ...

HMC Capital wholesale head exits for COO position

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
HMC Capital's head of wholesale distribution has departed after 18 months to join an equities investment manager. Tim Koroknay has left David Di Pilla's ASX-listed alternatives firm to take up the role of operating chief at the staff-owned WaveStone ...

Geoeconomic conflicts, extreme weather threaten global stability: WEF

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2026
Geoeconomic confrontation is the "most severe risk" that will herald a new phase of volatility over the next two years, while climate change will be the biggest threat over the long term, a report from the World Economic Forum finds. Released ahead ...

Vinva snaps up ECP executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
Systematic investment manager Vinva Investment Management has hired Amy Teh as client relationship director, adding almost two decades of institutional distribution firepower Teh will work with Vinva's institutional and wholesale clients, adding ...

Trump 'playing with fire' over Fed indictment threat

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
... but also to step down concurrently from the FOMC, despite that term not expiring until January 2028. "Trump is playing with fire in his repeated attempts to pressure the Fed into cutting rates," Bassanese said. "While it makes for political theatre and ...

APRA stress tests for potential ASX failure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... an operational failure like that occur during a financial shock, the impacts would be exacerbated. The ASX has come under fire throughout the year for the CHESS batch settlement failure incident that occurred on 20 December 2024. Both the Reserve Bank ...

HESTA, Vision Super divest Israeli securities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... issue." Investing in lockstep Australia's $327.9 billion sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has also come under fire for profiting off investments in controversial weapons companies linked to the conflict. Across the ditch, its counterpart the ...